Day: April 1, 2017

Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora – DARKEST HOUR DARKEST HOUR, one of the truly great modern metal bands, finds itself on its fourth label in as many albums. Quizzically the band is now on Southern Lord, the label apparently…

Nightmare Logic – POWER TRIP POWER TRIP had a split with INTEGRITY last year, and it had a few EPs and other releases, but its remained consistent, stripped-down, in-your-face and memorable since forming in 2008 in Dallas, Texas. Its brand…

Crystal Fairy – CRYSTAL FAIRY The notion of a side project suggests that a band is secondary to its members’ “main” bands. Another semantic spin, “supergroup,” is more prestigious, assuming that the band’s component members are involved with notable acts…

Live VII – ISIS One of “post metal’s” (still one of the most obnoxious terms in the genre) great acts, now turned legacy in a short time, is ISIS. Sadly, the fundamental terror group of the same moniker cropped up…

Alive – EDGE OF PARADISE While IN THIS MOMENT continues to rise as a dominant force in contemporary hard rock alongside HALESTORM and LACUNA COIL, it’s odd that EDGE OF PARADISE is still scraping for turf. Despite six years as…